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The Transparent Society, by David Brin, is a very interesting, somewhat philosophical discussion about freedom and privacy in the digital age.
Also, I ordered my computer for college today. I’m so totally excited about it.

The Chicago Weekly News is the best of the many newspapers published by U of Chicago students. Their web site is pretty good, too. They’re definitely a student organization in which I would like to participate.

Today, I discovered the ultimate speed-reading tool at Barnes & Noble. Leafing through this special book, I realized that I was reading over 1000 words per second. You ask yourself, “How can I learn to read at this phenomenal rate? What is this amazing book?”Our Century In Pictures, by Richard Stolley.

For the HTML junkies: automatically bitmap a font using HTML tables.

Aristotle proposed the law of the excluded middle, which is accepted as a fundamental law of logic. Generally, the law of the excluded middle means that any given statement must be either absolutely true or false - it can’t be sort of true, or in the middle. Of course, paradoxes seem to defy […]

How do humans interact with technology?The task of creating a good user interface for any technological appliance is interesting because it requires a complex balance between so many extremes. In terms of computer operating systems, the user interface should be aesthetic, yet functional; intuitive, yet powerful. The user interface should be familiar and […]

New Feature:The ktheory newsPortal is now up and running. You can launch the newsPortal by clicking the link at the top of the right hand navigation column.The obvious intent of this feature is delivering information to you more efficiently. However, the true, sinister, and subversive intent of the newsPortal is to transform ktheory […]

I’ve never been much of an Apple Computer fan. I think the iMac and iBook are terrible computers in terms of technology and value. But the new Apple G4 Cube brings Apple’s revolutionary design to an incredibly powerful, envy-inspiring computer.Speaking of computers, I need to start shopping for my college computer…

What’s important in life - Happiness? Knowing yourself? Finding truth?What are worthy ideals?Merely by my sentience, I am forced to give reason to my thoughts and actions. Yet no reason is pure, all is fallible to perception. Only nothing, non-existence, is pure, perfect, objective and absolute. Existing is an act that […]

I have to get a different job to replace What’s Your Beef. It’s killing me. But other than that, today was a good day.
I wish I was a speed-reader, then I could read more cool books.

I saw X-Men Saturday night. I enjoyed it a lot, but I’m a huge fan of the comic series, and the cartoon was a Saturday staple for many years, so my opinion may be a bit prejudiced.But honestly, who can’t be a fan of X-Men? Although the symbolism (usually of World War II […]

I’m link worthy.

Wow. July is already half over. Tempus fugits.

Is there any difference between Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.5?

I think I’m going to get a haircut tomorrow - err, technically today…

Stephanie inspired me to tell all you fine people what I intend to study at college:I want to double major in Computer Science and Economics. If you click the CS and Econ links, you’ll be taken to a U of C site describing, in detail, exactly what courses are required for those majors.You know, […]

People can be so incompetent. My curse is that I’m not.

There’s a new paper in the non-fiction writing section on the right:An End to Science? is my first IB Theory of Knowledge Prescribed Essay title, and my response to the quote:
Science does not as yet have a full understanding of the universe. However, it is suggested that with increased technology and theoretical advances, it may […]

FEED Magazine, an edgy, alternative Internet news site, has an interesting essay about Ralph Nader, the “Party Crasher”.

Vote Ralph Nader for president!
Americans get high on trivia, and forget that, whether presidents have been impotent or oversexed, drunk or sober, they have followed the same basic policies. Whether crooks or Boy Scouts, handsome or homely, agile or clumsy, they have taxed the poor, subsidized the rich, wasted the wealth of the nation […]